"dearie_blossom;c-17504081" wrote:
Edit: I‘d like to add that the gallery probably isn‘t as big of success for EA as you‘d think. They can‘t monetize the creations that the simmers upload for free but they still have ongoing costs (maintenance, servers, etc.). Its only benefit for EA is probably that it stops *some* people from pirating the game as they couldn‘t access the gallery then. I‘m sure they would prefer Second Life‘s approach and may even work towards it.
Wouldn't that mean that releasing an MMO-style Sims game like Olympus would make them lose money? It would be an one-time purchase with runing costs on severs etc. I'm pretty sure they thought of that and found a way to make it all work out, or they wouldn't have released SimCity or planned to release Olympus.
